bailiff
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1. bailiff - Noun
2. Bailiff - Proper noun
Meaning
Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
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26. We pray that no manner of person having a manor of his own, shall be no other lord’s bailiff but only his own.
A bailiff from the Law courts Undersheriff department, Joseph Korvoma told that all due eviction and demolition process was followed and that they had been stubborn to quit.
Hastings Town Hall By a Charter of Elizabeth I in 1589 the bailiff was replaced by a mayor, by which time the town's importance was dwindling.
He wrote in a letter in 1880 to professor Bjerknes in Valle, that he was told by locals that one of Abel's sons was born at former bailiff Marstrand's house in Nedstrand.
Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a "bailiff, jurats, and commonalty".
His family was a quite wealthy peasant family according to the local bailiff 's accounting.